Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate her Department has made of gender-based pay inequality among firefighters in England.

The Home Office does not hold this information centrally. The Equality Act 2010 gives women and men a right to equal pay for equal work.

Setting firefighter pay is the responsibility of employers, working through the National Joint Council. The Home Office plays no role in the negotiation or funding of firefighter pay.